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Constantine and his brother Thomas braced for the attack at the Hexamilion, which the Ottoman army reached on 27 November 1446.

Constantine and Thomas barely escaped, and Morea was invaded.

After the death of his first consort, Maria of Tver ( 1467 ), and at the suggestion of Pope Paul II ( 1469 ), who hoped thereby to bind Russia to the Holy See, Ivan III wedded Sophia Paleologue ( also known under her original Greek and Orthodox name of Zoe ), daughter of Thomas Palaeologus, despot of Morea, who claimed the throne of Constantinople as the brother of Constantine XI, the last Byzantine emperor.

After the fall of Constantinople, Thomas Palaiologos, brother of Constantine XI, was elected emperor and tried to organize the remaining forces.

The Cali Cartel would eventually go on to be known by then DEA chief Thomas Constantine as " The biggest, most powerful crime syndicate we've ever known.

According to reports and testimony of Thomas Constantine to the United States Congress, " Cali would be the dominant group in trafficking South American heroin due to their access to the opium growing areas of Colombia.

* Constantine, Hereditary Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg ( 1802-1838 ), eldest son and heir of Charles Thomas, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg

They were the parents of John VIII Palaiologos ( 1392 – 1448 ) and Constantine XI Palaiologos ( 1404 – 1453 ), the last Byzantine emperor, as well as the despots of Morea Demetrios Palaiologos ( 1407 – 1470 ) and Thomas Palaiologos ( 1409 – 1465 ).

In the UK in 2003, 3 ex-servicemen: Glyndwr Thomas Evan Collins, who fought in the World War II liberation of the Philippines ; Mr Constantine Shiels and Mr Frank Broomhead, were awarded with the special honour by the Filipino ambassador His Excellency Mr Edgardo B Espiritu, under General Orders Number 1090.

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Thomas A. Constantine served as Administrator for the Drug Enforcement Administration ( DEA ) between April 15, 1994 and July 1999.

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His brothers included emperors John VIII Palaiologos and Constantine XI Palaiologos, as well as Theodore II Palaiologos and Thomas Palaiologos, rulers of the Despotate of Morea, and Andronikos Palaiologos, despot in Thessalonica.

Thomas Hastings designed a triple arch which cost $ 80, 000 and was modeled after the Arch of Constantine in Rome.

U. S. DEA chief Thomas Constantine and Mexican drug enforcement agents said they predicted a bloody battle among rival trafficking groups seeking to expand their own turf.

Subsequent despots were the sons of the Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos, brother of the despot Theodore: Constantine, Demetrios, and Thomas.

His brothers included emperors John VIII Palaiologos and Constantine XI Palaiologos, as well as Theodore II Palaiologos, Demetrios Palaiologos and Thomas Palaiologos, who ruled as despots in Morea.

His brothers included emperors John VIII Palaiologos and Constantine XI Palaiologos, as well as Demetrios Palaiologos and Thomas Palaiologos, despots in the Despotate of Morea, and Andronikos Palaiologos, despot in Thessalonica.

* Thomas Otte, ‘ Eyre Crowe and British Foreign Policy: A Cognitive Map ’, in T. G. Otte and Constantine A. Pagedas ( eds.

Erected on the site of pagan temples and three previous St. Sophias, the first of which was begun by Constantine, this fourth church was started by Justinian in 532 and completed twenty years later.

Inside over the first door I saw one of these, which shows Constantine offering the city to the Virgin Mary and Justinian offering the temple.

Schweitzer concludes that the 1st century theology, originating in the lifetimes of those who first followed Jesus, is both incompatible with, and far removed from, those beliefs later made official by the Roman Emperor Constantine in 325 CE.

The conflict between Arianism and Trinitarian beliefs was the first major doctrinal confrontation in the Church after the legalization of Christianity by the Roman Emperors Constantine I and Licinius.

However, this situation changed drastically when Alexios ' first son John II Komnenos was born in 1087: Anna's engagement to Constantine was dissolved, and she was moved to the main Palace to live with her mother and grandmother.

A church was erected in 326, when Helena, the mother of the first Byzantine emperor, Constantine, visited Bethlehem.

A first wall was erected by Constantine I, and the city was surrounded by a double wall lying about 2 km to the west of the first wall, begun during the 5th century by Theodosius II.

* Constantine II, King of Armenia ( died 1344 ), first Latin King of Armenian Cilicia of the Lusignan dynasty

With Constantine ’ s death in 337, Constans and his two brothers, Constantine II and Constantius II divided the Roman world between themselves, after first deposing of virtually all of the relatives of their father who could possibly have a claim on the throne.

At first, Constans was under the guardianship of Constantine II, and the original settlement saw Constans receiving the praetorian prefectures of Italy and Africa.

At first allied with the southern rulers against the Vikings, Constantine in time came into conflict with them.

The following year, Constantine was again in England at Æthelstan's court, this time at Cirencester where he appears as a witness, appearing as the first of several subject kings, followed by Owen of Strathclyde and Hywel Dda, who subscribed to the diploma.

The Diocletianic Persecution ( 303 – 11 ), the Empire's last, largest, and bloodiest official persecution of Christianity, did not destroy the Empire's Christian community ; indeed, after 324 Christianity became the empire's preferred religion under its first Christian emperor, Constantine.

At one time or another they have characterized him as a political propagandist, a good courtier, the shrewd and worldly adviser of the Emperor Constantine, the great publicist of the first Christian emperor, the first in a long succession of ecclesiastical politicians, the herald of Byzantinism, a political theologian, a political metaphysician, and a caesaropapist.

The Emperor Constantine Porphyrogennetos ( r. 945 – 959 ), in his book De Administrando Imperio, admonishes his son and heir, Romanos II ( r. 959 – 963 ), to never reveal the secrets of its construction, as it was " shown and revealed by an angel to the great and holy first Christian emperor Constantine " and that the angel bound him " not to prepare this fire but for Christians, and only in the imperial city ".

In March 1913, an anarchist, Alexandros Schinas, assassinated King George in Thessaloniki, and his son came to the throne as Constantine I. Constantine was the first Greek king born in Greece and the first to be Greek Orthodox.

On December 11, 361, Julian entered Constantinople as sole emperor and, despite his rejection of Christianity, his first political act was to preside over Constantius ' Christian burial, escorting the body to the Church of the Apostles, where it was placed alongside that of Constantine.

According to Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philologist and philosopher, and Constantine Paparrigopoulos, a major Greek historian, Demosthenes was a student of Isocrates ; according to Cicero, Quintillian and the Roman biographer Hermippus, he was a student of Plato.

After the Emperor's death ( c. 337 ), Eusebius wrote the Life of Constantine, an important historical work because of eye witness accounts and the use of primary sources.

Lastly, Eusebius wrote eulogies in praise of Constantine.

Grosseteste's most famous disciple, Roger Bacon, wrote works citing a wide range of recently translated optical and philosophical works, including those of Alhazen, Aristotle, Avicenna, Averroes, Euclid, al-Kindi, Ptolemy, Tideus, and Constantine the African.

The council began when Emperor Constantine IV, wanting to heal the schism that separated the two sides, wrote to Pope Donus suggesting a conference on the matter, but Donus was dead by the time the letter arrived.

With Constantine ’ s supporters largely dealt with, Stephen wrote to the Frankish king, Pepin the Short, notifying him of his election, and asking for a number of bishops to participate in a council he was seeking to hold to discuss the recent confusion.

After Constans ' son and successor, Constantine IV had overcome the Muslim siege of Constantinople in 678, he immediately set his sights on restoring communion with Rome: he wrote to Pope Donus suggesting a conference on the matter.

Julius Firmicus Maternus, who wrote in the time of Constantine, exhibits so many points of resemblance with the work of Manilius that he must either have used him or have followed some work that Manilius also followed.

Under the reign of the restored King Constantine I, Greece went on to lose the Greco-Turkish war with heavy military and civilian casualties ; Winston Churchill later wrote that " it was a monkey bite that caused the death of those 250, 000 people.

He also wrote the mini series The Horrorist in 1995, and Bad Blood in 2000, both featuring John Constantine.

He wrote in direct response to the Byzantine iconoclasm that began in the eighth century by the Byzantine emperor Leo III and continued by his successor Constantine V. St. John maintains that depicting the invisible God is indeed wrong, but he argues that the incarnation, where " the Word became flesh " ( John 1: 14 ), indicates that the invisible God became visible, and as a result it is permissible to depict Jesus Christ.

In reference to the Donation, Visconti wrote: " It so happens that even if Constantine consigned to Sylvester so many and such rich gifts — which is doubtful, because such a privilege can nowhere be found — he could only have granted them for his lifetime: the Empire takes precedence over any lordship.

Constantine immediately declined the offer with a four-letter refusal and wrote " No fucking way " on the letter she had received.

At the peaceful height of Middle Byzantium, court life " passed in a sort of ballet ", with precise ceremonies prescribed for every occasion, to show that " Imperial power could be exercised in harmony and order ", and " the Empire could thus reflect the motion of the Universe as it was made by the Creator ", according to the Emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus, who wrote a Book of Ceremonies describing in enormous detail the annual round of the Court.

He became a deacon at Constantinople, attained a high reputation as a scholar, and became the tutor of Constantine Ducas, son of the Emperor Michael VII, for whom he wrote The Education of Princes.

In a memoir of the Roman emperor that Eusebius wrote after Constantine's death ( On the Life of Constantine, circa 337 – 339 ), a miraculous appearance came in Gaul long before the Battle of the Milvian Bridge.

Eusebius wrote in the Vita that Constantine himself had told him this story " and confirmed it with oaths " late in life " when I was deemed worthy of his acquaintance and company.

The Byzantine emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus wrote in the 10th century about the Croats settling in Dalmatia in the 7th century and described how they had organised their country into eleven counties ( zupanias ) one of which was Breberi, centred on site of the old Varvaria ( Moravcsik & Jenkins, eds.

As these repairs coincided with the capture of Crete by the Saracens, no expense was spared: As Constantine Manasses wrote, " the gold coins of the realm were spent as freely as worthless pebbles ".

The German Steinscheider wrote a book dedicated to Constantine, which was printed in Berlin in 1865.

Eumenius, the panegyrist of Constantine Chlorus, wrote that both the Picts and Caledonians were red haired ( rutilantia ).

In 894 Constantine of Preslav wrote the historical work Историкии ( Histories ), the first historical chronicle in Slavic literature.

* Constantine the Philosopher wrote a biography to Stefan in ~ 1431.

Constantine wrote that although the family was not wealthy, his childhood was happy.

James wrote that Constantine " had revolted against the revolting contrast between his first-class status as a cricketer and his third-class status as a man ...